Hussein Mjalli

Hussein Mjalli (1937-12 October 2014) was Minister of Justice of Jordan from 10 February to 16 May 2011, succeeding Marouf al-Bakhit and preceding Ibrahim Omoush.

Biography
Hussein Mjalli was born in 1937 in Kitta, Jerash Governorate, Jordan. Mjalli became Chairman of the Jordanian Bar Association in 1970 and served as a lawyer, and from 1989 to 1993 he sat in the Jordanian House of Representatives. In 2011, Mjalli briefly served as Minister of Justice, and he made a very controversial statement by calling Jordanian Army soldier Ahmed Daqamseh a hero and demanded his release; Daqamseh killed several Israeli schoolgirls and wounded a few before being arrested. He died of a heart attack on 12 October 2014.